damage : Idioms & Phrases

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actual damages

  • noun (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
    compensatory damages; actual damages.
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battle damage

  • noun loss of military equipment in battle
    combat casualty.
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brain damage

  • noun injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.
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collateral damage

  • noun (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations
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compensatory damages

  • noun (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
    compensatory damages; actual damages.
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Consequential damage

  • (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.
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damage control

  • noun an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss
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damage feasant

Dam"age fea`sant
Etymology
OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible.
Definitions
  1. (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
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double damages

  • noun twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to
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Exemplary damages

  • noun (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
    exemplary damages; smart money.
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  • (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others.
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general damages

  • noun (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
    compensatory damages; actual damages.
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Liquidated damages

  • (Law), damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained.
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minimal brain damage

  • noun a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
    attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; minimal brain dysfunction; MBD; attention deficit disorder; ADD; hyperkinetic syndrome; ADHD.
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Nominal damages

  • noun (law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract)
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  • (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
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operational damage

  • noun loss of military equipment in field operations
    operational casualty.
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punitive damages

  • noun (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
    exemplary damages; smart money.
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Special damage

  • (Law), a damage resulting from the act complained of, as a natural, but not the necessary, consequence of it.
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To sound in damages

  • (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like.
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treble damages

  • noun three times the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to
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Unliquidated damages

  • (Law), penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
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Vindictive damages

  • those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
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